Luci07
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Anyone else notice this?, one of the photos used shows a single horse being loaded into a double trailer and loading behind the passenger (left hand side) and not the right hand (driver) side?
Error in H&H photo in the towing article?
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Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
Does it say they are carrying a single horse and are not going to load a second one in the rhs.
Orangehorse
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I noticed this as well, and remarked as such to OH. A single horse should be loaded on the driver's side of a trailer with a partition.
fairyclare
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I noticed that too, also, the person closing the ramp was stood directly behind.
googol
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What if the horse travels best on the lhs?
Luci07
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You load behind the driver to help minimise trailer swerve. If the horse is not happy travelling like that, you are safer to travel with no partitions.
Tiddlypom
Carries on creakily
It's the position of the girl putting the ramp up that caught my eye, too. She's perfectly placed to be flattened by the ramp if the horse kicks out or runs back. Agreed, the breeching straps are up but how sturdy are they? C'mon, H&H, you've run stories about people who have been seriously hurt or killed in loading accidents, and this shows exactly where not to position yourself.
Stand to the side of the ramp, people! Also, the breakaway cable is shown as being looped around the tow ball :confused3:. Poor practice.
Frumpoon
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The photo was to illustrate how to avoid snaking, ie load behind driver
Luci07
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But the photo showed the horse being loaded on the left hand side, ie. passenger..
Red-1
I used to be decisive, now I'm not so sure...
I saw this an spent a while seeing if the photo had been reversed somehow on printing, but it was hard to tell as the number plate was blurred out. Then, I noticed the back door of the 4WD vehicle seemed to be hung the correct way.
Even if the person WAS going to put a second horse in it was a very confusing article. More so as I was assisting a client with taking a horse away to an outside venue, and she turned up with the horse on the kerb side, and I explained how the trailer was better balanced if the horse was on the crest of the road as it did not compound the problem of the trailer leaning to the left with the road camber. Then, next day, H&H, respected magazine, publishes an article that apparently contradicts me.
Funnily enough the horse had been scraping himself and pulling shoes in the trailer, but in the new position travelled better.
IMO it would be "correct" of H&H to publish a correction, seeing as this article was all about travelling for safety and stability!!!!
Even if the person WAS going to put a second horse in it was a very confusing article. More so as I was assisting a client with taking a horse away to an outside venue, and she turned up with the horse on the kerb side, and I explained how the trailer was better balanced if the horse was on the crest of the road as it did not compound the problem of the trailer leaning to the left with the road camber. Then, next day, H&H, respected magazine, publishes an article that apparently contradicts me.
Funnily enough the horse had been scraping himself and pulling shoes in the trailer, but in the new position travelled better.
IMO it would be "correct" of H&H to publish a correction, seeing as this article was all about travelling for safety and stability!!!!
GeeBee45
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Just to add.
Equitrec state in their owner manual for the Space Treka that a single horse should be carried on the near side of the trailer. I know the trailer in the picture isn't an Equitrec, just adding that not all trailers are the same.
Now. Who noticed the position of the breakaway cable in the close up shot is incorrect?
Equitrec state in their owner manual for the Space Treka that a single horse should be carried on the near side of the trailer. I know the trailer in the picture isn't an Equitrec, just adding that not all trailers are the same.
Now. Who noticed the position of the breakaway cable in the close up shot is incorrect?